bannon's plans to promote hardline conservatives. >> you have to nominate people who can actually win, because winners make policy and losers go home. >> reporter: and standing by mcconnell, the president said he'd talk to bannon. >> steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing. some of the people that he may be looking at, i'm going to see if we talk him out of that, because frankly, they're great people. >> reporter: the president took questions for about 40 minutes on a wide range of subjects, including puerto rico. >> we have massive amounts of water. we have massive amounts of food. but they have to distribute the food and they have to do this, they have to distribute the food to the people of the island. so, what we've done is, we now actually have military distributing food. something that they really shouldn't have to be doing. >> reporter: and on the investigation into russian meddling and possible collusion, the president signaled he won't pull the plug on the special prosecutor. >> are you considering firing robert mueller? >> no, not at all. >> jon karl live from the white house tonight. and jon, something else the president said today, getting a lot of attention at this hour.